Ezekiel

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You, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, “You mountains of Israel, hear the LORD’s word. See also: Ezekiel 37:22 Ezekiel 34:14 Ezekiel 33:28The Lord GOD says: ‘Because the enemy has said against you, “Aha!” and, “The ancient high places are ours in possession!”’ See also: Deuteronomy 32:13 Ezekiel 25:3 Ezekiel 35:10therefore prophesy, and say, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;” See also: Psalms 44:13-14 Jeremiah 18:16 Lamentations 2:15-16therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD: The Lord GOD says to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which have become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are all around; See also: Deuteronomy 11:11 Ezekiel 34:28 Ezekiel 36:6therefore the Lord GOD says: “Surely in the fire of my jealousy I have spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey.”’ See also: Micah 7:8 Ezekiel 36:3 Ezekiel 38:19Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and tell the mountains, the hills, the watercourses and the valleys, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because you have borne the shame of the nations.” See also: Psalms 123:3-4 Ezekiel 34:29 Psalms 74:10Therefore the Lord GOD says: “I have sworn, ‘Surely the nations that are around you will bear their shame.’ See also: Ezekiel 20:5 Ezekiel 25:1-17 Zephaniah 2:1-15“‘“But you, mountains of Israel, you shall shoot out your branches and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at hand to come. See also: Isaiah 27:6 Ezekiel 34:26-29 Hebrews 10:37For, behold, I am for you, and I will come to you, and you will be tilled and sown. See also: Psalms 46:11 Hosea 2:21-23 Ezekiel 36:34I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, even all of it. The cities will be inhabited and the waste places will be built. See also: Ezekiel 36:33 Jeremiah 30:19 Jeremiah 33:12I will multiply man and animal on you. They will increase and be fruitful. I will cause you to be inhabited as you were before, and you will do better than at your beginnings. Then you will know that I am the LORD. See also: Jeremiah 33:12 Jeremiah 23:5-8 Micah 7:14Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, even my people Israel. They will possess you, and you will be their inheritance, and you will never again bereave them of their children.” See also: Jeremiah 15:7 Ezekiel 47:14 Ezekiel 36:13“‘The Lord GOD says: “Because they say to you, ‘You are a devourer of men, and have been a bereaver of your nation;’ See also: Numbers 13:32therefore you shall devour men no more, and not bereave your nation any more,” says the Lord GOD. See also: Amos 9:15 Ezekiel 37:25-28 Isaiah 60:21“I won’t let you hear the shame of the nations any more. You won’t bear the reproach of the peoples any more, and you won’t cause your nation to stumble any more,” says the Lord GOD.’” See also: Ezekiel 34:29 Psalms 89:50 Isaiah 54:4Moreover the LORD’s word came to me, saying, “Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and by their deeds. Their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity. See also: Jeremiah 2:7 Micah 2:10 Numbers 35:33-34Therefore I poured out my wrath on them for the blood which they had poured out on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols. See also: 2 Chronicles 34:21 Ezekiel 7:8 Lamentations 4:11I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. I judged them according to their way and according to their deeds. See also: Ezekiel 39:24 Deuteronomy 28:64 Ezekiel 18:30When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name, in that men said of them, ‘These are the LORD’s people, and have left his land.’ See also: Isaiah 52:5 Romans 2:24 Jeremiah 33:24But I had respect for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where they went. See also: Psalms 74:18 Isaiah 48:9 Ezekiel 20:9“Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord GOD says: “I don’t do this for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went. See also: Psalms 106:8 Ezekiel 36:32 Psalms 115:1-2I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD,” says the Lord GOD, “when I am proven holy in you before their eyes. See also: Ezekiel 20:41 Psalms 46:10 1 Peter 2:9“‘“For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land. See also: Ezekiel 37:21 Ezekiel 34:13 Amos 9:14-15I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. See also: Hebrews 10:22 John 3:5 Jeremiah 33:8I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. See also: Ezekiel 11:19-20 Psalms 51:10 2 Corinthians 5:17I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them. See also: Titus 3:3-6 Hebrews 13:21 Ezekiel 39:29You will dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers. You will be my people, and I will be your God. See also: Jeremiah 32:38 Jeremiah 31:33 Ezekiel 37:27I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain and will multiply it, and lay no famine on you. See also: Matthew 1:21 Hosea 2:21-23 John 1:7-9I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field, that you may receive no more the reproach of famine among the nations. See also: Ezekiel 34:27 Joel 2:26 Deuteronomy 29:23-28“‘“Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good; and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations. See also: Ezekiel 6:9 Ezekiel 20:43 Nehemiah 9:26-35I don’t do this for your sake,” says the Lord GOD. “Let it be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, house of Israel.” See also: Deuteronomy 9:5 Ezekiel 36:22 Titus 3:3-6“‘The Lord GOD says: “In the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited and the waste places will be built. See also: Isaiah 58:12 Ezekiel 36:10 Jeremiah 33:10The land that was desolate will be tilled instead of being a desolation in the sight of all who passed by. See also: Ezekiel 6:14 Jeremiah 25:9-11 Deuteronomy 29:23-28They will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The waste, desolate, and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.’ See also: Isaiah 51:3 Jeremiah 33:9 Joel 2:3Then the nations that are left around you will know that I, the LORD, have built the ruined places and planted that which was desolate. I, the LORD, have spoken it, and I will do it.” See also: Matthew 24:35 Numbers 23:19 Ezekiel 17:24“‘The Lord GOD says: “For this, moreover, I will be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock. See also: Hebrews 10:21-22 1 John 5:14 Zechariah 10:9As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed feasts, so the waste cities will be filled with flocks of men. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’” See also: John 10:16 1 Kings 8:63 Acts 2:5-11

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)15 notes

Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.

These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity

Ezekiel 36:1

Ver. 1. Israel. The restoration of the Jews and the redemption of Christ, constitute this fourth division. W. -- Edom has seized parts of the country, as if I had abandoned my people for ever.

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Ezekiel 36:2

Ver. 2. Heights. Sept. "deserts." The mountains are often styled eternal, as being the best symbols of durability. Deut. xxxiii. 15.

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Ezekiel 36:3

Ver. 3. Reproach. This God had repeatedly threatened. Deut. xxviii. 37. C. Jer.

xxiv. 9. ---

People talked of their distress. W.

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Ezekiel 36:8

Ver. 8. Israel. Some apply what follows to the captives returning; others, perceiving that the expressions were not then literally verified, have recourse to the reign of 1000 years. Others again explain the whole of Christ's Church.

But some expressions refer to it, and others to the captives; which, though mixed together, induce no confusion, as what belongs to the Jews was a figure of what regarded Christ; and the predictions of the Messias might be applied to the Jews in a hyperbolical sense. S. Aug. Doct. iii. 34. S. Jer. M. T. C.

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Ezekiel 36:11

Ver. 11. Greater. Sept. "similar." H. --- It would be difficult to shew that the Jews arrived at greater eminence after the captivity than before, (C.) though they were less addicted to idolatry.

Their kingdom was not independent: they had no prophets, &c. But the superior numbers and excellence of the Christian Church is manifest.

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Ezekiel 36:12

Ver. 12. Them. Antiochus and the Romans laid waste the country; (C.) and Adrian would not allow the Jews to come near Jerusalem. S. Jer. Eus. iv. 6. ---

The people were not indeed removed together, as they had been. But all this is verified only in the Church, which in the midst of persecutions always subsists. Theodoret thinks these promises were conditional with respect to the Jews.

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Ezekiel 36:13

Ver. 13. Men. This remark was very ancient. Num. xiii. 33. Wars had almost always raged in the country. C.

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Ezekiel 36:15

Ver. 15. More. This whole promise principally relates to the Church of Christ, and God's perpetual protection of her; for to the carnal Jews, they have been removed out of their land these sixteen hundred years. Ch.

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Ezekiel 36:18

Ver. 18. Blood of their own children, and of the innocent. C. xvi. 36. and xxii. 2.

and xxxiii. 25.

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Ezekiel 36:20

This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.

Ver. 20. Land. Yet their conduct was no better than that of infidels. Thus they throw the blame on the law, and upon God himself. Jer. xlviii. 9. &c. C. --- The Jews had provoked God to punish them with captivity; and hence the nations took occasion to blaspheme, that he could not protect them. W.

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Ezekiel 36:22

Ver. 22. Holy, that my attributes of justice and mercy may be confessed. Is.

xlviii. 2. Dan. iii.

49. Judith viii. 24.

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Ezekiel 36:25

Ver. 25. Water. R. David and the Chal. explain this of the remission of sin; and all Christians understand it of baptism in water, remitting all offences. Eph. v.

26. Tit. iii. 5. W. --- He alludes to the purification of the Jews, which prefigured baptism and penance, in which the blood of Christ is applied to our souls. This of course was only fulfilled in his church.

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Ezekiel 36:26

Ver. 26. Flesh. The Jews at their return fell not so often into the sins of idolatry,

&c. of which the prophets complained. But yet they were far from answering this character. Great irregularities prevailed under Nehemias, and in the days of the Machabees the priests publicly worshipped idols. 1 Esd. ix. and 2 Esd. v.

and viii. and 2 Mac. iv. and v. Christ enables his servants to act with purity unto the end, by the influence of his all-powerful grace. C.

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Ezekiel 36:27

Ver. 27. Do them. Hence the efficacy of grace appears, (S. Aug. H.) and hereby some keep the commandments. W. --- God assists our free-will. Theod. A.Lap.

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Ezekiel 36:37

Ver. 37. Find. Heb. "seek." I will cause great multitudes to come to the solemn feast. This was seen still more after the conversion of the Gentiles. C.

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License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses

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